Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupGarfield CountyNebraskaUnited States
German32.2%31.0%12.5%
Irish16.8%11.7%9.4%
English6.9%9.4%9.5%
Polish4.1%2.7%2.2%
American3.4%3.5%5.3%
French2.7%—1.6%
Russian2.3%——
Czech2.3%3.4%—
Mexican1.7%8.7%11.3%
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Garfield County
Nebraska
United States
Median age
47.7
37.3
39.1
Age 18–24
8.6%
9.8%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
29.4%
16.8%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Garfield County
Nebraska
United States
Median household income
$62,804
$76,475
$84,427
Poverty rate
8.8%
10.6%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
29.7%
34.7%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Garfield County
Nebraska
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
0.2%
12.8%
22.3%
Religious landscape
Measure
Garfield County
Nebraska
United States
Catholic
21.7%
19.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
39.4%
14.2%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
6.6%
50.8%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
32.3%
12.1%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Garfield County, Nebraska
Precinct data
Results by precinct
2 precincts · 1,015 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Garfield County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -CITY OF BURWELLCITY OF BURWELL
82
490
4
576
14.2%
85.1%
R+70.8
Precinct -RURAL GARFIELD CO.RURAL GARFIELD CO.
34
403
2
439
7.7%
91.8%
R+84.1
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−35.3%
1896
+20.2%
1900
−3.2%
1904
−53.5%
1908
−0.7%
1912
+5.2%
1916
+15.4%
1920
−37.8%
1924
−39.5%
1928
−66.5%
1932
+10.8%
1936
−3.2%
1940
−32.8%
1944
−37.4%
1948
−12.9%
1952
−60.9%
1956
−56.3%
1960
−54.9%
1964
−22.3%
1968
−58.9%
1972
−62.4%
1976
−34.2%
1980
−51.7%
1984
−63.7%
1988
−53.8%
1992
−34.4%
1996
−38.1%
2000
−53.6%
2004
−60.0%
2008
−57.1%
2012
−66.0%
2016
−71.4%
2020
−74.3%
2024
−76.4%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
11.4%Harris116
87.8%Trump893
0.5%Oliver5 +2
R+76.4
R+2.1
R+74.9
1,017
All 5 candidates in 2024 · 3 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican87.8%893
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic11.4%116
Chase OliverNonpartisan0.5%5
OtherAll other candidates0.2%2
Cornel WestNonpartisan0.1%1
R
12.4%Biden133
86.7%Trump933
0.8%Jorgensen9
R+74.3
R+2.9
R+78.8
1,076
R
12.3%Clinton121
83.8%Trump821
2.3%Johnson23
R+71.4
R+5.5
R+73.5
980
R
15.9%Obama149
81.8%Romney769
1.4%Gray13
R+66.0
R+8.9
R+69.8
940
R
20.6%Obama212
77.7%McCain800
1.7%
R+57.1
D+2.9
R+64.4
1,030
R
19.3%Kerry196
79.3%Bush806
1.5%
R+60.0
R+6.4
R+57.5
1,017
R
21.0%Gore202
74.6%Bush718
3.4%Nader33
R+53.6
R+15.5
R+54.1
963
R
25.2%Clinton249
63.3%Dole625
11.2%Perot111
R+38.1
R+3.7
R+46.6
988
R
20.3%Clinton221
54.7%Bush595
24.8%Perot270
R+34.4
D+19.4
R+40.0
1,087
R
22.1%Dukakis234
76.0%Bush803
1.9%
R+53.8
D+9.8
R+46.1
1,057
R
17.8%Mondale196
81.4%Reagan899
0.8%
R+63.7
R+12.0
R+45.5
1,104
R
21.5%Carter238
73.2%Reagan811
5.3%
R+51.7
R+17.5
R+42.0
1,108
R
30.6%Carter343
64.8%Ford726
4.6%
R+34.2
D+28.2
R+36.2
1,121
R
18.8%McGovern209
81.2%Nixon903
0.0%
R+62.4
R+3.5
R+39.3
1,112
R
17.5%Humphrey183
76.4%Nixon797
6.0%
R+58.9
R+36.5
R+58.2
1,043
R
38.8%Johnson483
61.2%Goldwater761
0.0%
R+22.3
D+32.5
R+44.9
1,244
R
22.6%Kennedy305
77.4%Nixon1,047
0.0%
R+54.9
D+1.4
R+55.0
1,352
R
21.9%Stevenson262
78.1%Eisenhower936
0.0%
R+56.3
D+4.7
R+40.9
1,198
R
19.5%Stevenson253
80.5%Eisenhower1,042
0.0%
R+60.9
R+48.1
R+50.2
1,295
R
43.6%Truman542
56.4%Dewey702
0.0%
R+12.9
D+24.6
R+17.3
1,244
R
31.3%Roosevelt408
68.7%Dewey896
0.0%
R+37.4
R+4.6
R+44.9
1,304
R
33.6%Roosevelt533
66.4%Willkie1,053
0.0%
R+32.8
R+29.6
R+42.7
1,586
R
47.2%Roosevelt697
50.4%Landon744
2.4%
R+3.2
R+14.0
R+27.4
1,476
D
54.7%Roosevelt775
43.9%Hoover622
1.4%
D+10.8
D+77.3
R+7.0
1,417
R
16.5%Smith235
83.0%Hoover1,180
0.4%
R+66.5
R+27.0
R+49.0
1,421
R
19.6%Davis251
59.1%Coolidge757
20.9%La Follette268
R+39.5
R+1.7
R+14.4
1,280
R
26.5%Cox252
64.3%Harding611
9.2%
R+37.8
R+53.2
R+11.6
950
D
52.8%Wilson426
37.4%Hughes302
9.8%
D+15.4
D+10.2
D+12.2
807
O
28.9%Wilson234
23.7%Taft192
47.5%
Roosevelt +18.6
D+5.8
R+14.4
811
R
47.5%Bryan363
48.2%Taft368
4.3%
R+0.7
D+52.8
D+8.9
764
R
14.0%Parker84
67.4%Roosevelt406
18.6%
R+53.5
R+50.3
R+33.8
602
R
47.3%Bryan235
50.5%McKinley251
2.2%
R+3.2
R+23.4
D+4.3
497
D
60.1%Bryan223
39.9%McKinley148
0.0%
D+20.2
D+55.6
D+26.3
371
O
5.1%Cleveland17
40.5%Harrison134
54.4%
Weaver +13.9
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R+37.0
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
14.6%289
85.4%1,693
1,982
2020
R
9.0%91
86.0%868
1,009
2018
R
14.2%113
83.6%667
798
voter registration
Registered voters
By party of registration, over time
Party registration · 2026R+75.6
vs
Presidential vote · 2024R+76.4
Registration and the presidential vote track closely here — within 0.8 points.
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
+38 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net +89 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $68,974 in average income, against $61,520 for residents who stayed — 12% higher. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Garfield County, NE in Garfield County, NE: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
−9
2012
+6
2013
+59
2014
−13
2015
+17
2016
−2
2017
+26
2018
−4
2019
+5
2021
+32
2022
−27
2023
−6
2024
−33
2025
+38
Garfield County's roughly 1,900 residents make it one of the emptiest stretches of the Loup River sandhills, and its 2024 presidential margin of R+76.5 reflects a pattern of overwhelming Republican dominance typical of Nebraska's most rural, sparsely settled plains counties.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 20.2 points in 1896 and a Republican high of 76.4 points in 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.1 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 76.4 points.
A population of 1,718, a 97% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $62,804 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Boyd County and Phillips County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Garfield County, Nebraska voted Republican by 76.4 points (R+76.4), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,017 votes cast, 116 went Democratic and 893 went Republican.
When did Garfield County, Nebraska last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Garfield County, Nebraska voted Democratic was 1932.
How many people live in Garfield County, Nebraska?
Garfield County, Nebraska has a population of 1,718 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Garfield County, Nebraska?
Median household income in Garfield County, Nebraska is $62,804 — below the national median of $80,734. The Nebraska state median is $76,475.
What is the political history of Garfield County, Nebraska?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Garfield County, Nebraska from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 3 went Democratic and 29 went Republican.
